Light in Dark Spaces by Margery Hutter Silver

Light in Dark Spaces by Margery Hutter Silver

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The valiant self-awareness of the speaker in “Light in Dark Spaces” is the secret to this beautiful collection: a polished gem of tender, approachable poetry. Love, friendship and family are the themes, as well as a playful disrespect for the rules of time itself: the past is always present, the present is always suspect. With her short, spare lines, and seemingly-effortless mastery of poetic forms, Margery Silver repeatedly breaks her reader’s heart.

–Eric Hyett, Poet and Translator, Author of “Aporia” and translator of “Sonic Peace” and “Is It Poetry?”

 

In elegant lines that evoke the spaces of her heart, Margery Silver recruits the resources of poetic language to create meaning at once personal and redolent.  Her images are acute, and her words glisten; their lyrical force resides in the long memory that informs her writing and in the passion, honesty, and wisdom guiding it.  As she examines her own share of our wild and beautiful world, Silver renders the luminous whole.

–Becky Kennedy, poet and linguist, author of “Last Place” and “Getting It Right”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Light in Dark Spaces

by Margery Hutter Silver

Cover art “© 1985 Natalie Alper. All rights reserved.”

Full-length, Paper

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979-8-88838-814-3

2024

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Drawing from the author’s 90 years of experience, the poems in this collection arise from her love of family, of cherished friends, and of those moments in nature that fill us with awe.  As in life, there is also loss. These poems address most vividly the losses of old age–loss of loved ones, of friends, of physical abilities.  They can be poignant and sad, yet often surprise the reader with their optimism and humor.  They reveal a love of life and an acceptance of life’s losses, but always with the intent to move ahead, continuing to find poetry in each new day,

Margery Hutter Silver is a former editor and clinical neuropsychologist.  In her 80s, she started seriously writing poetry. Drawing from 90 years of experience, her poems rise from her love of family, animals, and those moments in nature that fill us with awe.  Her poems about the losses of old age are sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, and sometimes sad.  She lives in Lasell Village in Newton, Massachusetts, a few miles from her two daughters and four grandsons.

 

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